"There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes."

-- Michael Palin

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”

Source : "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.
“The only thing a man knows is himself.”
“The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.”
“People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.”
“It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.”
“Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.”
“You must feel love within, before you can share it.”
“It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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